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posted by guest
Mar 16, 2009 3:34PM
Well it seems Anna et al have finally bowed to the pressure of about a thousand letter each month about the lack of "real women" in the magazine. As a size-12-er (in the UK, people, God) it makes me angry. Is Karlie not a "real woman"? Is she a fucking hologram or something???!! I really think they should think about her feelings before writing to Vogue about something like that. But yeah, there sould be more variation. Personally I'm more fucked off about Tania D. in a "clothes for 50 year olds" editorial last year when Kate was in it. She's like, 18? Ridiculous!!
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posted by guest
Mar 16, 2009 4:47PM
Along the same vein of #3, I was just thinking about this today. I was looking at knitting books (just keep reading, it gets applicable) and they have these titles along the line of "Knits for Real Women." So are the other books for "fake women"? I realize that they want big ladies to buy a book and they can't say "we added a bunch of stitches to already boxy sweaters," but it's pretty transparent and very obnoxious. And I would imagine it would be obnoxious to be not-super-thin and have people always congratulating you for being "curvy" and therefore exceptional. But ya know, when they have to, when they have a famous singer on the cover and can't come up with anything else, I guess.
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posted by uvagurl
Mar 16, 2009 11:00PM
Ok so I am sick and tired of "real women" being obese, as someone said above yea they are trying to get bigger women to buy these magazines and products, but a real woman definitely isn't and shouldn't b a size 16 it shouldn't be a size 0 either, but can we get a healthy weight please??
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posted by guest
Mar 17, 2009 8:03AM
"(...)but a real woman definitely isn't and shouldn't b a size 16 it shouldn't be a size 0 either".
Oh great commenter #8 thank you for sharing your great wisdom with the public. Therefore I now know that I am an abomination and should be ashamed to even exist. Bad Fattie. Perhaps the solution would be to stop policing female bodies.
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posted by guest
Mar 17, 2009 8:27AM
Vogue seems to be able to alienate at least part of the population with each current trend they feature. Whether your under or over weight have curves or not, the only important thing to take from this is that vogue doesnt make the rules about what is a 'real' women. God i cant stand vogue at the moment.
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posted by Signature9
Mar 17, 2009 9:14AM
Real women come in lots of different shapes and sizes. There has to be a way to give fashionable options to those at the larger end of the spectrum without insulting those at the smaller end.
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posted by guest
Mar 18, 2009 5:35PM
It's called airbrushing...and Beyonce is Curvy in respects to her peers i.e. singer, entertainers etc. I don't think the true intention is to say Beyonce is the girl next door and she looks like "us".
And I'm not going to go applauding a magazine for having two people of color on a magazine within a 4 month period they have a long way to go!
Healthy Weight is realtive to the individual and something a medical professional not magazine readers would be better equipt to determine. So they will never be able to please everybody
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posted by guest
Mar 18, 2009 5:42PM
Maybe "real" women you or I know don't wear heels 365, but I'm sure some outside of the entertainment industry do. General statements about what women "should" be from other women are the problem. If someone is a size 0 that's there business, the same goes for a size 16 it's there weight or lack of and there health I've never understood why other people are so obessed with it!
posted by guest
Mar 16, 2009 1:54PM
And Beyonce is a beautiful woman who sometimes is curvier than others. Not on this Vogue cover. Her waist has very clearly been airbrushed into oblivion.